Where standardized tests oppress, performance assessments liberate, working with the intention to close achievement gaps grounded in racism and transform classrooms into culturally-responsive spaces where all students are set up for success.

Performance assessments - assessments that ask students to apply their learning in new, real world ways - are a critical measure of learning for mastery education. Within this system, performance assessments enable students to show what they know and are able to do in many different ways.